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Combet: Fooling? Or treating Public as Fools?

Australia's Minister for Climate Change has held a Press Conference reported by news media. He still link) uses the term "carbon price" even though PM Gillard admitted that it was a tax (link) and that tax is on carbon dioxide, not carbon.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard's new tax will be used to allow Australia to meet its share of a $100 billion-a-year United Nations fund to transfer wealth from rich countries to help undeveloped nations adapt to global warming.

Mr Combet also defended Labor's pricing regime.

"It's doing what it was intended to do - it's cutting greenhouse gas emissions."

Is it really cutting Green House gas Emissions? Has the tax caused a crippling of Australia's economy with the knock-on effect of reducing production and commerce thereby reducing emissions?

"Labor's carbon tax was deliberately aimed at reducing industrial activity and hurting Australian manufacturing and jobs, and now they are planning to dump their inadequate and pathetic compensation for such damage."

While Australian businesses are paying a carbon tax that is to rise to $29 per tonne in the next two years, the ABC reported (link)

Carbon permits dropped to as little as 2.63 euros ($3.34) a tonne, and German power prices for next year fell to their lowest level since 2007.

Sir Henry Fraser has an impressive CV.
Barbados' newest knight, retired university professor, Dr. Henry Fraser, received the Accolade of Knight of St. Andrew, in the 2014 Independence Day Hours. Sir Henry Fraser was named as a result of The Knighthood of St. Andrew being bestowed on him for his outstanding contribution to the medical profession and representation of Barbadian culture, especially in the area of its architectural history.Sir Henry, a medical practitioner by profession, has worked for many years as a lecturer in medicine at the University of the West Indies and now serves as an Independent Senator in the Barbados Parliament where he has gained an outstanding reputation for his work on the historic treasures of Barbados.

He has received a plethora of other awards, including the UWI’s Pelican Award, Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International and the Gold Crown of Merit (GCM) in the Barbados Honours of 1992.